Most of the problem is that talking to non technical people is frustrating, they often start like

1. Can u add X 2. Can u change Y

Without understanding cost of doing all this. Yes, i can do all and everything you ask for, but each action has a cost, which you fail to understand.

We cannot do everything if we need to launch a reliable product.

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nlitened 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

In these situations, the non-technical people don’t understand the costs, the technical people don’t understand the benefits. The communication from both sides is needed to find a good cost-to-benefit tradeoff

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ethan_smith 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is kind of the exact thing the article is about though. They're not "failing to understand" costs - they just have different context. Your job is to help them make informed tradeoffs, not to expect them to already know what things cost before asking.

	▲	faangguyindia an hour ago \| parent [-]
		it's not possible to make everyone understand nuclear physics, there is certain threshold of cognitive skills/motivation required for that.

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fragmede 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That cost has now gone way down, with AI doing that code thing. Love it or hate it, that is the reality.

	▲	mavamaarten 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Has it, though? There's still features that bring large user value and require 10 lines of code, and features that bring a small user value and require AI to burn tokens on huge refactors and babying to make sure it doesn't break anything.
	▲	faangguyindia 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		i've all AI subscription, cost is definitely down but risks aren't. You can still break things, you can make mistakes.